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Penrose Stairs

The Penrose stairs, or Penrose steps, is also known as the impossible staircase. It is an impossible object created by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose in which a two-dimensional staircase makes four 90-degree turns as it ascends or descends on a continuous loop. This way, a person could climb them forever and never get any higher.

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